The star-crossed lovers are both confined against their wills: Brody in a Venezuelan slum and Carrie in a Washington area hospital. And both are heavily drugged: Brody on heroin to keep him docile and Carrie on Ritalin to control her bipolar disorder.

In Brody’s first appearance of Season 3, he’s near death after being ambushed in Colombia and shot twice in the stomach. In shock, bleeding and wracked with pain, Brody is rescued by Caracas-based rebels.

Their hideout, nicknamed the Tower of David, doesn’t refer to Jerusalem’s ancient citadel. It refers instead to an egomaniacal banker who commissioned the skyscraper then abandoned it half-completed when the economy crashed.

Operating on Brody in the dimly lit building is mysterious Dr. Graham (Erik Todd Dellums), who muses that he could simply let this American fugitive die and collect a $10-million reward.

As Brody is led away, El Nino and his men come to the rescue once more, gunning down the cops, the imam and his panicked wife (Iliana Garcia). Brody survives another day but his cover is blown.

Carrie, meanwhile, also tries to escape confinement by convincing her psychiatrist (Stephen Schnetzer) that a “sea change” in behavior occurred. After just three weeks of hospitalization, Carrie claims she’s lucid, re-acclimated to her medication and ready to go home.

“So Saul did you a favor?” the psychiatrist asks, referring to CIA Acting Director Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) obtaining medical treatment for Carrie against her will.

Saul wants Carrie’s jarring mood swings to diminish along with her feelings for Brody, the world’s most-wanted terrorist because he supposedly masterminded the CIA headquarters bombing that killed over 200 people.

As a longtime mentor, Saul cares deeply for unstable Carrie. That’s why he’s guilt-ridden for making her a scapegoat to fend off hostile senators pressing hard to dismantle the decimated spy agency.

“Will you please tell Saul that I’m better?” Carrie asks the doctor, begging to resume her "normal" life.

But Carrie is far from normal. She’s prone to emotional outbursts and even commits an act of self-harm by banging her head against a restroom mirror.

Carrie’s hope of liberation is raised briefly when she thinks Saul has come to see her at the psych ward. However, the visitor is actually an attorney (Jason Butler Harner) who offers to help win Carrie’s release if she shares information with a law firm partner.